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    • 4 Ratings
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    The Ticking Time Bomb

    AUGUST 3, 2012 7:04PM

    By Lethia Cobbs


    Topics: single, women, power of attorney, friends, nuclear family, chemo-brain, schizophrenia, mental illness, children, mothers, father, elderly parents, marriage, african american, spinster, adult children, power of attorney, parenthood, generation x, reproduce, marry, divorce, cancer, single, parents, childfree

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 5241 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Autism's Inconvenient Truth

    JUNE 25, 2012 8:43AM

    By Jewellya


    Topics: open call, science, family, books, environment, health, news, autism, children, child, fear, anxiety, abuse, authority, father, mother, 20th century, birth control, in vitro fertilization

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 654 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Day I Was Born, Dad Flew, Flipped Out, and Fell to Earth

    JUNE 15, 2012 7:48AM

    By John Cork Corcoran


    Topics: father, father's day, aviation, wwii, near death, pilot, brooklyn, survival, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 5138 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Daddy, can I come home?

    MARCH 2, 2012 12:56PM

    By PatienceP


    Topics: father, domestic abuse, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 438 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Lost: One Father

    JUNE 8, 2011 2:19PM

    By Starshine Roshell


    Topics: starshine, father, dad, fathers' day, fathers day, father's day

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 996 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    You can go home, but should you?

    MAY 19, 2011 3:35PM

    By Beth Dugan


    Topics: dad, father, daughter, moving in, empty nest, unemployment, ocd

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 1412 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    My Father’s Golf Clubs

    APRIL 7, 2011 4:00AM

    By John Cork Corcoran


    Topics: son, father, the masters, golf, sports, family, comedy, open call, spring cleaning

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 2103 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Our Children Sleep in Bed With Us; Shame On You Supernanny

    DECEMBER 6, 2010 11:02AM

    By PonderingJane


    Topics: attachment parenting, true story, cosleeping, family bed, co sleeping, newborn, daughter, son, children, spouse, father, mother, moms, kids

    • Editor's Pick
    • 25 Ratings
    • 1591 Views
    • 52 Comments
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    Little Frail Porcelain Kid VII

    DECEMBER 3, 2010 10:23AM

    By Mauricio Betancourt


    Topics: gay/lesbian, books, society, pain, feelings, heart, pain, sister, father, mother, family, love, kid, porcelain, frial, little

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 2010 Views
    • 34 Comments
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    How I Fit My Teenager for a GPS Without Her Knowledge.

    NOVEMBER 7, 2010 7:12PM

    By Reflections of a shallow pond


    Topics: humor, teenagers, parenthood, kids, father, daughter, high school dance, dad

    • Editor's Pick
    • 26 Ratings
    • 1617 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    My Father's Clock

    AUGUST 13, 2010 1:24PM

    By the traveler


    Topics: memoir, father, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 36 Ratings
    • 3315 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    Lessons of My Father

    AUGUST 12, 2010 9:25AM

    By Susan Creamer Joy


    Topics: father, family, life lessons, kindness, compassion, happiness, hope, generosity, parenting, fatherhood

    • Editor's Pick
    • 40 Ratings
    • 4861 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    Mom, Mom and Dad

    JULY 27, 2010 9:36AM

    By Molly Lilly


    Topics: open call, family, sisters, lesbian mother, step-mom, father, best friend

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1376 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    shape and sight

    JUNE 23, 2010 2:30AM

    By c.clark


    Topics: father, memoir, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 464 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    The man who understood

    JUNE 21, 2010 10:44PM

    By ravensword


    Topics: parenting, mental illness, teenagers, children, family, father

    • Editor's Pick
    • 58 Ratings
    • 5205 Views
    • 53 Comments
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    Dad

    APRIL 18, 2010 9:30PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: dad, father, death, cancer, malignant melanoma, oil and gas industry, wyoming, lds hospital, dr. william t. close, dr. lawrence stevens, medicine, david e. lawrence, dave lawrence, big piney wyoming, family, reflections on father's day, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 4027 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    Last Request, My Dying Father Wants A Beer.

    JANUARY 14, 2010 2:46PM

    By Eden Simone


    Topics: death, hospice, death with dignity, father, caregiving

    • Editor's Pick
    • 41 Ratings
    • 3223 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    Sorry father! You had a gay son! :(

    NOVEMBER 20, 2009 12:38PM

    By Z BITCH


    Topics: father, sad, true story, gay

    • Editor's Pick
    • 39 Ratings
    • 4131 Views
    • 49 Comments
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    The Accidental Poetry of Alzheimer's

    AUGUST 18, 2009 10:27PM

    By Hells Bells


    Topics: death of personality, daughter, father, poetry, alzheimer's disease

    • Editor's Pick
    • 65 Ratings
    • 2777 Views
    • 70 Comments
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    A change in course

    JUNE 18, 2009 6:44PM

    By bbd


    Topics: my father as a person, father, family, father's day, truth, lies, changing course, open call, a retro-active open call, my parents' secret history

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